Oregon · Nonprofit
FOOD ROOTS
FOOD ROOTS (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,173 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($217,546). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $799k
- Net assets
- $135k
What Food Roots does
Mission
Food Roots' mission is to grow a robust and equitable food system in tillamook county through community engagement, education, farmer and entrepreneur support, and increasing access to locally grown food.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farm and food business support 1) we administered and managed the individual development accounts (ida) program in partnership with casa of oregon to provide financial skills training and matched savings accounts to local farm and food-based business entrepreneurs. 2) we operated the Food Roots marketplace, a local food storefront in tillamook, which provides local food producers and area consumers tillamook's only food outlet dedicated exclusively to north coast-grown and produced food products. In total, we supported 48 local food entrepreneurs.
$98,538 spent$4,870 earned by the program28% of program spendingLocal food equity 1) provided a snap acceptance and a matching incentive program at Food Roots marketplace, a local food storefront that provided increased access to fresh, healthy, locally-grown food for families facing food insecurity. 2)partnered with community organizations to supply local foods to community members in need, which included 5,500 worth of food, all of which we purchased directly from local food producers. 3) grew and donated 714 pounds comprised of 47 kinds of produce from our school and community gardening education programs to free food programs and food pantries.
$164,447 spent$59,806 earned by the program47% of program spendingFarm to school engaged 1,159 tillamook county students in garden- and local food-based educational lessons and activities. Activities included in-garden activities, farm field trips, classroom farmer visits, local produce tasting tables, and family engagement events. Also assisted schools with local food procurement efforts, and furthered school garden development and maintenance, including by engaging community volunteers.
$85,488 spent$86,267 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $348,473.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $281k to $437k (+56%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 23% · 2023 7% · 2024 15% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of FOOD ROOTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $21k → $167k.
3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FOOD ROOTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FOOD ROOTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FOOD ROOTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 45% · 2019 65% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
24% of FOOD ROOTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of FOOD ROOTS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FOOD ROOTS's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD ROOTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $336k on record — $115k federal, $221k state.
- Department of Agriculture$115k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$219k
- OTHER SERVICES$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOOD ROOTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD ROOTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOD ROOTS?
- FOOD ROOTS (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $799,173 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($217,546). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD ROOTS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $799,173 in grants to FOOD ROOTS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD ROOTS?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $217,546 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD ROOTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing